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Sa-Ra’s Taz Throws A Political Party On “Vote Obama”

The media fell in love with will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video, but why does an anthem for political action have to be so damn somber? Taz Arnold (a.k.a. T.I.$.A.) from innovative production crew Sa-Ra Creative Partners is taking a more light-hearted approach with the video for his song “Vote Obama.” In the colorful clip, directed by Kenzo Hakuta, Taz takes to the streets of L.A. to spread his message about votin’ the Obama way: “We hoood, we votin’, and throwin’ it up!” The track, which is basically an extended hook, samples the Isley Brothers’ soul classic “Footsteps In the Dark” for a funky summertime vibe. Music fans will remember Sa-Ra’s offbeat production from their brief stint as artists on Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint. Watch “Vote Obama” after the jump.

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Presidential Candidates Wrestle For The Belt

Amidst weak debates and back-and-forth tussles to take home Pennsylvania’s primary championship belt, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made time to tap into the WWE’s fan-base for a short P.S.A. Full of past and present WWE clichés, Hillary adopted the wrestling alias of “Hill-Rod” while Obama asked fans if they smell what “Ba-Rock was cookin’.” Republican nominee John McCain also took place in the awkward triple-threat attempt at pleasing the wrestling faithful by not only pronouncing Barack wrong, but also doing the worst rendition of Hulk Hogan’s “Hulkamaniacs” shtick ever. We’re hearing crickets, but see for yourself after the jump.

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Fold Your Own Presidential Candidate Finger Puppets

Understanding the ups and downs of Presidential politics can be difficult in this confusing time, when super-delegates and inexplicable Florida re-votes are all the rage. Thankfully, Fold US Candidate has created easy-to-use finger puppet versions of Obama, Clinton and McCain. Simply print out the template for each candidate, follow the folding instructions and you’ll be holding your own pint-sized debates before you know it. Check out each candidate in its pre-assembled state after the jump.

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Mariah Carey Can Still Compete

At 37, Mariah proved she still looks as good as chicks half her age while performing at The Hills‘ season premiere. [FListed]

Karate-Bot fights real-life Robot Chicken. [Reuters]

Family Affair: Obama is related to Brad Pitt, and Hillary is related to Angelina Jolie. [Huffington Post]

Victim’s 5th anniversary watch collabo with Casio G-Shock has us shook. [Freshness]

More proof that the album is dead: The Smashing Pumpkins are only releasing “groups of songs” now. [Spinner]

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Street Artists for Obama

Photo: Vitostreet

With a renegade reverend like Jeremiah Wright running his mouth and scaring away all the guilt-laden white people—which doesn’t help Barack Obama’s cause—it’s good to know that at least the streets have his back. We spotted this ‘Obama Street Art’ group on Flickr urging people to post stickers, stencils, and posters of the presidential hopeful. And although some people just lazily posted the Shepard Fairey posters that we don’t endorse, there was a lot of other unique designs and images promoting Obama. With the contemporary artists like the Date Farmers and The Mac backing him too, it looks like he’s got the creative community pretty much sewn up. Too bad none of them are superdelegates. On to Pennsylvania.

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Kim Kardashian Endorses Obama

Oprah and Ted Kennedy were cool, but Barack finally seems to have the endorsement we’ve been waiting on…

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Jack Nicholson Uses Scare Tactics In Video for Hillary Clinton

You know that silly season in politics has officially arrived when professional psychopath Jack Nicholson starts throwing his weight into the political arena, and it’s still only the primaries. The legendary actor created this new internet video featuring clips from some of his award winning misogynist-laced movies like “The Shining,” “A Few Good Men,” “Batman,” and others that should do Hillary Clinton as much good as a Farrakhan endorsement for Obama at this point. It’s only one day before the primaries that could determine if Hillary goes back to being a groupie or not.

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Fiddy Gets A Bad Rap

Results of a recent Pew survey that examined racial attitudes towards African American news makers found that 42 percent of those surveyed consider 50 Cent a “bad influence.” Out of a sample list of celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Kanye West, Fiddy was the only big name who people deemed more harm than good. In comparison, 50’s 9/11 adversary Kanye West came out with a 49 percent approval rating. To see how others ranked on the list, check page 41 of this report.

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The Next ‘Hope’ for Obama

Right in time for next week’s Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas—which could shut up Hillary for good—here’s some more Barackart. Last week we showed you the Date Farmer’s rendition of Obama, now behold the work of The Mac. The Henna-like styled posters are already en route to the two potential Clinton-killing states and the limited edition silk screened/signed versions will be available shortly via Upper Playground. We scored some action shots of the artist in Obamaction after the jump.

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Rap Sheet: Obamage Video

• Barack track: He might not be able to beat King Solomon in a freestyle battle, but Jin still knows how to make relevant tracks like this “Open Letter to Barack Obama.”

• More Obamaness: CNBC interviews Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas about his Obama video that’s garnered more than 13-million page views.

• Ad hoc: Hov’s Rocawear is catching some heat over advertisements featuring the family of Sean Bell, the unarmed man who was shot to death by police in a hail of bullets back in 2006. Detectives are accusing the clothing brand of trying to influence the jury, the brand claims the ads are uplifting.

• Track record: VH1 launched a competition yesterday to find an upcoming producer to help Flavor Flav make a new single. An original audio composition must be submitted by March 13. Head over here for more info.

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